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Summary

Abstract

Harry Jacob Anslinger served in the U.S. Government from 1918-1963. As commissioner, Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1963, he was the American government's chief law enforcement officer in the fight against illegal drugs. The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, typescripts, 13 books shelved separately, journals, publications, and photos, written or collected by Anslinger on narcotic drug use. It also includes 6 audiocassettes, 21 negatives, and 20 reels of microfilm of this collection.

Dates

Creation: 1835-1975
Creation: Majority of material found within 1918-1963

Extent

13.25 Linear Feet (60 items)

Background

Biographical / Historical

Harry Jacob Anslinger was born 20 May 1892 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He attended Pennsylvania State College, 1913-1915, and received his LL. B. from American University in 1930. Anslinger served in the U.S. Government, 1918-1963, under nine presidents; he held consular posts in The Netherlands, Germany, Venezuela, and the Bahamas, 1918-1926; Treasury Department,

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Harry J. Anslinger

1st Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1892–1975)

Harry Jacob Anslinger (May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975) was an American government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the presidencies of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy. He was a supporter of Prohibition, and of the criminalization of all drugs except for alcohol, - because supporting the prohibition against alcohol means he didn’t support the criminalization of alcohol - and spearheaded anti-drug policy campaigns.^[1]

Anslinger has been characterized as an early proponent of the war on drugs, as he zealously advocated for and pursued harsh drug penalties, in particular regarding cannabis.^[3] As a propagandist for the war on drugs, he focused on demonizing racial and immigrant groups.^[3]

Anslinger held office as commissioner for an unprecedented 32 years, until 1962. He then held office for two years as U.S. Rep

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If you look for the roots of America’s ban on cannabis, you’ll find nearly all roads lead to a man named Harry Anslinger. He was the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which laid the ground work for the modern-day DEA, and the first architect of the war on drugs.

Anslinger was appointed in 1930, just as the prohibition of alcohol was beginning to crumble (it was finally repealed in 1933), and remained in power for 32 years. Early on, he was on record essentially saying cannabis use was no big deal. He called the idea that it made people mad or violent an “absurd fallacy.”

But when Anslinger was put in charge of the FBN, he changed his position entirely.

“From the moment he took charge of the bureau, Harry was aware of the weakness of his new position. A war on narcotics alone — cocaine and heroin, outlawed in 1914 — wasn’t enough,” author Johann Hari wrote in his book, “Chasing the Scream:T